Avoid like the plague - Software Engineer Tenable Employee Review

1.0
Jul 12, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

None at the end of my time

Cons

I'll try to keep this short, the culture in the Dublin office was incredible: friendly, smart and engaged engineers and engineering management. However during my time there a new CPO Nico Popp joined and started to introduce a real "the grind never stops" culture that filtered down through mid management to my team and others. In a matter of weeks quotes about 8 hours of sleep being too much and "sleep faster" were dropped into company calls and completely soured me on the company, this was accompanied by changes to the oncall setup for engineers that involved 24/7 pages that you were expected to answer even if you were woken from your sleep for the 3rd time in one night. Management ignored any requests to revert this system I would avoid this company like the plague as long as this side of management are still there. I had liked the CEO but as he presumably hired and oversaw Nico's work, I have to assume he approved of these changes. No compensation level would be worth the hell of the last weeks in the company, but when I left I got a 20% pay bump so can only assume they are substandard.

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Cons

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Pros

We can essentially use AI without any limit right now. The pay and compensation is industry leading but that's how they get you to stay.

Cons

The engineering organization is technologically stagnant — from CI pipelines, to sec/ops practices and overall architecture, everything is locked into legacy practices with little room for outside perspectives. Attempts to introduce modern tools or new ideas are consistently met with resistance rather than curiosity. There's also a stark tenure gap. Most engineers leave within a year or two once they recognize the limited ability to drive change, while those who stay long-term — often 8+ years — have rarely worked outside this environment and lack exposure to broader industry practices.

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